Enable Wake On LAN (WOL) from terminal command line

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What's the command to enable this feature using terminal. I don't have GUI access to my Mac remotely and can only ssh to it remotely.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 17, 2016 9:07 PM

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Hello

You may use pmset(1). Something like the following (when used locally).

#!/bin/bash # temporary change effective until restart # no need to be run as root (not writting to setting file) pmset force -a womp 1

or

#!/bin/bash # permanent change # must be run as root (writing to setting file) sudo pmset -a womp 1

Tested under OS X 10.6.8.

Good luck,

H

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